Tuesday, 22 February 2011

Sepia Saturday 63 : Saturday 26 February 2011

With Thanks To The State Library of Queensland and Wikimedia Commons

I am still in the archives of the State Library of Queensland (via Wikimedia Commons, via my desktop computer) for my featured photograph of the week. The photograph shows the four-masted barque, "Richelieu" under tow from two tug-boats. The steel sailing boat was built in Germany in 1916, named the "Pola" and originally intended for the South American nitrate trade. Her delivery was delayed by World War I and in 1919 she was seized by the Allies as part of post-war reparations, and handed to the French who renamed her the "Richelieu". Her sailing days came to an end in 1927 when her cargo of pitch caught fire in Baltimore Harbour.

The archive image is of uncertain date and unknown author, but it is one of the 50,000 archive images generously handed over on a copyright free basis by the Queensland Library to Wikimedia Commons. All lovers of old images will welcome such a move which allows enthusiasts all over the world to enjoy this rich treasure-house of historical images.

You can add to our very own Sepia Saturday treasure-house by linking your posts to the Sepia Saturday Blog using the Linky Form below. Post your post (on or around Saturday 26 February), add your name and the post URL to the Linky Form and leave us a comment to let us know you are joining in. If you want a theme, there are themes galore in my featured image, but remember you don't have to follow any theme. Think image, think old, think Sepia Saturday.

I am away this weekend and therefore mine is an early submission. And I won't be back at my computer until Sunday evening and therefore my comments on your posts will be delayed but will get there in the end. Have a good weekend, everyone.

I'll have something up tomorrow; just watched tonight's episode of "Who do You Think You Are" featuring Kim Catrail, (Actress on Sex and the City among others). She travels to Liverpool with her Mom and to visit aunts, tracking down the disappearance over 70 years ago of her grandfather, who simply abandoned his family. Quite the character he turned ot to be a bigamist, went on down the road and started another family. Does that show sponsored by Ancestry.com show in the UK?

IT'S PAST 2 AM, BUT I'M DONE!!will visit on saturday those who visited me last week, and will visit on either sunday or monday [since i have the day off!!] this week's posts!!see you soon!!and BTW: i am back to my usual posts... meaning, extensive!!!:D~HUGZ

I've only been here once before and hadn't twigged about the theme - I just read Martin's and it made me think of my Granddad too - rarely photographed as he was usually behind the camera (chopping people's heads off) 8-)

Oh my goodness so many posts already, how cool is that! This was I must say from my favorite sepia themes is a very excellent choice...I can't wait to see the others, (I've seen a few already before I just posted) and all just grand! Thanks again Alan and Cat for having such a fun blog...I'm happy to have found you!

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.